Before you can do something, you must first be something.
Where confidence is wanting, the most beautiful flower in the garland of love is missing.
The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man.
Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light.
What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?